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Eberechi Eze: Arsenal's ruthless coup shows intent and leaves Spurs stunned Arsenal's stunning coup to snatch Eberechi Eze away from Spurs is a ruthless statement of intent, says BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty

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Irish library system has 41 copies of Gary Stevenson’s Trading Game. Only one branch has multiple copies - 6 in Dalkey.

Typical. The rich just horde everything - even charismatic socialists.

Exclusive: Chinese firm behind NATO ally's windfarm Is tied to army A Chinese company supplying a new wind farm in Germany is run by a military veteran who has sworn eternal loyalty to the CCP and is staffed by many ex-soldiers

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Rice x2

YouTube video by DW News China is set for its biggest economic strategic shift in decades | DW News

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Exclusive - Chinese spy balloon was packed with American tech The Chinese spy balloon that crossed the United States carried American technology that could have enabled it to spy on Americans.

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Diplomats meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Syria's future – DW – 01/12/2025 Top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe have gathered in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to chart a future course for Syria after the fall of Bashar Assad. On the agenda is the possible easing of san...

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Exclusive—Chinese patents reveal aim to cut undersea cables Patent applications showed that Chinese scientists had been devising ways for severing undersea cables

👀🇨🇳 "With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented devices to sever such cables quickly and cheaply." By Didi Kirsten Tatlow:

Exclusive—Chinese patents reveal aim to cut undersea cables Patent applications showed that Chinese scientists had been devising ways for severing undersea cables

Just fancy that … With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented devices to sever such cables quickly and cheaply. www.newsweek.com/china-confli...

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
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Exclusive—Chinese patents reveal aim to cut undersea cables Patent applications showed that Chinese scientists had been devising ways for severing undersea cables

www.newsweek.com/china-confli...

Asia faces economic headwind from Trump and a sluggish China – DW – 01/07/2025 Slow Chinese economic growth and the possibility of a global trade conflict under US President-elect Donald Trump mean slower growth and turbulence are on the horizon for Asia in 2025.

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Melissa goes all in … respect. Remember that old joke? What’s a Greek urn?

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✈️ BAKU, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination of Grozny in southern Russia.

2 more Chinese generals fall in anti-corruption campaign in military NPC Standing Committee announces Lieutenant General You Haitao and Vice-Admiral Li Pengcheng removed from China’s top legislature.

2 more Chinese generals fall in anti-corruption campaign in military
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China Abruptly Changes Army General Overseeing Political Loyalty China named a new political commissar for its large ground forces, an unexpected move that signals President Xi Jinping is tightening military discipline.

China named a new political commissar (General Chen Hui) for its large ground forces, an unexpected move that signals Xi Jinping is tightening military discipline. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey The Oppenheimer director’s adaptation of Homer is scheduled for release in the summer of 2026, and will feature Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer will be an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, it…

Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey

YouTube video by DW News Why Germany's economic fortunes changed | DW News

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Echoes of Germany which delayed its 2023 China strategy until after a visit by Premier Li Qiang. This walk-on-eggshells approach to Beijing should be a thing of the past

China's push for supremacy moves into space A new observatory rising in Chile adds to China's extensive Latin American space network that is boosting its goal of civilian and military control in the skies

Check out Didi Kirsten Tatlow's story about how China's ambitions in space are playing out in the dust of Chile's Atacama Desert

PLA releases electronic warfare ‘kill list’ for US carrier groups A Chinese report has revealed a catalogue of US naval targets including radars and sensors to be attacked in any future conflict.

China's People's Liberation Army has released an electronic warfare ‘kill list’ for US carrier groups, including radars and sensors to be attacked in any future conflict www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

EU adopts 15th sanctions package against Russia for its continued illegal war against Ukraine The Commission welcomes the Council's adoption of the 15th sanctions package against Russia. The focus of this package is to keep cracking down on Russia's shadow fleet, as well as combating sanctions...

The EU is sanctioning Chinese firms and a North Korea minister over Ukraine war ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming? | Marina Hyde The Duke of York has proved to be a scandal magnet. He is a problem, a royal problem: it’s time they owned it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Here is the always enjoyable Marina Hyde on the Andrew-China spy scandal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Chinese AI chip firms blacklisted over weapons concerns gained access to UK technology Imagination Technologies had licences with two Chinese firms – but said it had not ‘implemented transactions’ that would enable the use of technology for military purposes

Guardian story on the UK-China Transparency report www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Imagination Technologies and asset stripping by the Chinese Communist Party - Published 17/12/2024 UK-China Transparency has published a research paper on Imagination Technologies, one of the UK’s most significant semiconductor industry companies. This paper is Part One of a tw...

Report by UK-China Transparency about how Chinese AI chip firms blacklisted over weapons concerns gained access to UK technology ukctransparency.org/imagination-...

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Hong Kong police to put up nearly 6,400 more surveillance cameras over 3 years Police say 612 cameras already installed under scheme’s first phase have helped to crack 97 cases so far, ranging from murder to assault.

Hong Kong police to put up nearly 6,400 more surveillance cameras over 3 years
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Hong Kong police to put up nearly 6,400 more surveillance cameras over 3 years Police say 612 cameras already installed under scheme’s first phase have helped to crack 97 cases so far, ranging from murder to assault.

Hong Kong police to put up nearly 6,400 more surveillance cameras over 3 years
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